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    Keywords: health care
    • June 2014
    • Case

    Going Social: Durex in China

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Aaron Smith
    When Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese... View Details
    Keywords: Distribution; Multinational Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Marketing Communications; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; China
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    Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Aaron Smith. "Going Social: Durex in China." Harvard Business School Case 714-430, June 2014.
    • October 1994
    • Background Note

    Note on the Confrontation Strategy

    Because of the emergence of the lean enterprise (a Japanese innovation), the nature of competition has changed. Competitive advantages are virtually impossible to sustain; instead of avoiding competition through creating sustainable competitive advantage, companies... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy
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    Cooper, Robin. "Note on the Confrontation Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-105, October 1994.
    • 08 Jan 2010
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    Multinational firms, agglomeration, and global networks

      V.G. Narayanan

      Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care
      • July 2016
      • Case

      Cataumet Boats, Inc.

      By: W. Earl Sasser and Mark Davis
      Jaime Giancola, an MBA student, has recently completed an operations management course in which aggregate production planning (APP) was one of the topics. She believes that her family's business, Cataumet Boats, which her grandparents started and which her mother and... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Family Business; Production; Cost Management; Transportation; Customer Satisfaction
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      Sasser, W. Earl, and Mark Davis. "Cataumet Boats, Inc." Harvard Business School Brief Case 917-509, July 2016.
      • 18 Mar 2013
      • HBS Case

      HBS Cases: LEGO

      Out of work for a year following a serious illness in 1993, Kjeld appointed a five-person management team to help him run the company when he returned. The group focused mainly on driving growth. When a benchmarking study revealed LEGO's... View Details
      Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Antoinette Stein and Katharine Lee
      Manufacturers are increasingly being required to adhere to product take-back regulations that require them to manage their products at the end of life. Such regulations seek to internalize products' entire life cycle costs into market prices, with the ultimate... View Details
      Keywords: Product; Cost; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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      Toffel, Michael W., Antoinette Stein, and Katharine Lee. "Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-026, July 2008. (September 2008.)
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      A Public Option Can Be a Triple Win for U.S. Healthcare

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
      The United States needs to control healthcare costs and quality while reaching universal coverage. The strongest choice is a public option that allows people to choose between Medicare and private payers. But a public option needs sustainable financing mechanisms that... View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare; Public Option; Universal Health Coverage; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Quality; United States
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      Herzlinger, Regina E., and Richard Boxer. "A Public Option Can Be a Triple Win for U.S. Healthcare." Health Management, Policy and Innovation 4, no. 3 (December 2019).
      • 13 Feb 2015
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      A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and Evaluating Enterprise IT Flexibility

      Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Robert Lagerstrom & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Technology
      • December 2011
      • Article

      Platform Envelopment

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
      Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne. "Platform Envelopment." Strategic Management Journal 32, no. 12 (December 2011): 1270–1285.
      • 03 Oct 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator

      to discover these constraints—and to help other parties overcome them—rather than dismissing others as irrational. Mistake 3: They Are Not Irrational; They Have Hidden Interests Some years ago, a group of managers decided to promote... View Details
      Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
      • October 1991 (Revised September 1998)
      • Case

      Maxwell Appliance Controls

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      A profitable manufacturing division of a large company is looking for new ways to identify sources of productivity improvements. Led by its senior finance officer, an activity-based cost system is developed to identify activities performed for its highly varied product... View Details
      Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Management Teams; Quality; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Production; Manufacturing Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Maxwell Appliance Controls." Harvard Business School Case 192-058, October 1991. (Revised September 1998.)
      • March 1995 (Revised April 1997)
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      Co-operative Bank, The

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Srikant M. Datar
      A British bank with strong roots in the cooperative movement encounters declining profitability in an increasingly competitive and deregulated financial services industry. It attempts to grow by broadening its customer base and increasing the range of products and... View Details
      Keywords: Product; Competition; Expansion; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Profit; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and Srikant M. Datar. "Co-operative Bank, The." Harvard Business School Case 195-196, March 1995. (Revised April 1997.)
      • 31 Oct 2018
      • What Do You Think?

      What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

      PeopleImages What kinds of fear, if any, are appropriate in leading others? Fear has a place in leading and managing others. But if used for short-term achievement, as a negative motivator, or as a source of power over others, it can have... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • April 1995 (Revised April 1995)
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      Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Pillsbury is transforming itself from an integrated producer of flour and bakery products to a value-added supplier of premium branded products. After initial successes applying activity-based costing to manufacturing operations, two senior executives decide to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Production; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Pillsbury: Customer Driven Reengineering." Harvard Business School Case 195-144, April 1995. (Revised April 1995.)
      • October 2011
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      Concentrating on Governance

      By: Dalida Kadyrzhanova and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
      This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model that integrates agency costs and bargaining benefits of management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value.... View Details
      Keywords: Market Participation; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations
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      Kadyrzhanova, Dalida, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Concentrating on Governance." Journal of Finance 66, no. 5 (October 2011): 1649–1685.
      • 08 Aug 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?

      Placing decision rights where these combined costs are minimal, the authors write, should lead to optimal decision-making efficiency and therefore better performance. Allocating decision rights in ways that maximize organizational... View Details
      Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
      • 26 Aug 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

      anticipatory regret can lead to indecision and costly delays. 71 This anxiety can be particularly problematic for executives in fast-moving industries. Successful management teams in turbulent industries develop certain practices to cope... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
      • November 2008
      • Case

      HNA Group: Moving China's Air Transport Industry in a New Direction

      By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
      HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, was positioning itself to go global and make a mark for itself as the largest private airline in China. Positioned squarely behind the "Big Three" state-owned carriers, Hainan Airlines sought to create a world-class... View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Private Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; China
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      Kirby, William C., F. Warren McFarlan, and Tracy Manty. "HNA Group: Moving China's Air Transport Industry in a New Direction." Harvard Business School Case 309-029, November 2008.
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